Previously called Gordan MS 50 Binding: Modern paper boards, leather spine, stamped in gold: POGGIO/ DE/ MISERIA. Restored by J. MacDonald Co. East Norwalk, Conn. Layout: Single column of twenty-nine lines; ruled in hardpoint with vertical bounding lines full length; written area: 145 x 111 mm Script: Humanistic Decoration: One four-line red penwork initial with elaborate black penwork extensions stretching along the inner margin appears on fol. 1r, and on 28r a similar, but slightly less elaborate, three-line initial begins Book 2; on fol. 2v space for initial left unfilled; marginalia throughout Related resource: Kristeller, P.O., Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries (London, 1963-97), vol. 5, p. 399, no. 50. Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. p. 351, no. 50. Related resource: Bracciolini, Poggius. De miseria. R. Fubini, ed., Opera omnia I (Torino, 1964) 86-131. Provenance: Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century; early provenance unknown; in the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1995
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